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WiC 561 (Oct 29, 2021)

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Xi calls for flat tax

Property, Talking Point Long discussed levy on property owners looks set to be launched

The Communist Party of China (CPC) was created with a core mission of redistributing the means of production. On taking power in 1949 it started to do ...

Team of rivals

China Consumer Alibaba’s Singles’ Day titans sell record amounts

It is that time of the year again, as China’s biggest shopping bonanza comes into view. Singles’ Day is less than two weeks away and the ...

Cheaper than Tesla

Auto Industry Geely finally gets Volvo to market, but the price disappoints

Tesla tore through the $1 trillion mark in market value this week after news emerged that Hertz had ordered 100,000 Model 3 sedans for its rental ...

Did he just say that

Cross Strait US strategic ambiguity gets more ambiguous

Back in 2001 George W Bush suggested that America would do “whatever it took” to help Taiwan defend itself if the island ever came under attack. ...

Silicon sword

Internet & Tech Who is making Alibaba’s cutting edge new chip?

Put two monsters from the movie world together and you get Godzilla vs Kong, a Hollywood blockbuster that hit cinema screen in March. But over in the ...

NEOM calling

China and the World Huawei inks massive deal in Saudi Arabia

“The Muslim husband is allowed up to four wives as long as he treats them all with fairness.” Such was the analogy from Saudi Arabia’s Prince ...

Study break

Education New education law lessens student workloads

What do extracurricular tutoring and warm coats have in common? Not very much in normal circumstances. But under Beijing’s new ‘Double Reduction’ ...

Pharma DIY

Healthcare Why rare disease drugs are hard to get in China

Watching 30 year-old Xu Wei in the lab that he built himself, it’s hard to believe he isn’t a trained scientist. In a white coat and sterile ...

The worst film of 2021?

Entertainment Almost two decades in the making a costly reworking of Puccini…

In 2018, Asura hit the big screen after six years in production. The fantasy epic, which was bankrolled by Alibaba Pictures, had a production ...

Li Yundi

Red Star Prince of the piano

Li Yundi, 39, was born in Chongqing. His musical career began when he was just three years-old when he took up the accordion after seeing it played at ...

Relics at the ready

Sino-File “Objects from the Palace Museum will be shipped to Hong Kong…

Louis Ng Chi-wa, director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum, told the China Daily that the museum’s striking new building in West Kowloon will house ...

Pension passions

And Finally A dating show for seniors is a hit

On the face of it, a dating show for retirees set on the Chinese-North Korean border shouldn’t be a romantic hit. Love Won’t Come Too ...

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